Uplander

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Peasant, Stag

Culture and cultural heritage

They have always been the strongest in the world, but if the wheel falters and the paths diverge they could lose it all, this will never come to pass.

Shared customary codes and values

Community above all, keep it strong and through the community keep all of Bertholf strong.

Common Etiquette rules

Politeness and openness is the name of the game.

Common Dress code

Leathers or thick practical hides.

Art & Architecture

Simple and sturdy architecture, art is strong songs and hard poems.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Arranged marriages, coming of age brawls, the calling of the Stag.

Birth & Baptismal Rites

For Goliaths they will be painted and this will be tattooed later when the child would survive it.

Coming of Age Rites

One must prove it in fair competition. The competition is their choice but strength and martial prowess is the most common and respected.

Funerary and Memorial customs

One is buried in a deep grave, their deaths marked and their deeds recounted. None deserve to be forgotten even the least of our tribe.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Tall and muscular.

Gender Ideals

Men do the work, women care for the family. The family is not necessarily their actual family but can be a community, a collective or commonly the Knighthood.

Courtship Ideals

Primarily arranged by elders of the villages.

Relationship Ideals

It is a partnership to bring prosperity to all parties.

Major organizations

The Stag Knights

Encompassed species

• Goliath

Languages spoken

• Stag